Photograph - Marshall & Co Manufacturing building

Historical information

By 1900 Marshall & Company was the largest shoe & boot manufacturer in Australia producing 12,000 pieces of footwear weekly. A fire in1901 gutted the building and the company moved to Richmond.

Physical description

Faded photograph of the three-story building belonging to the Marshall Manufacturing Company which was established in Port Melbourne in 1888. It employed some 300 workers until destroyed by fire in 1901.

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